[PATCH 04/12] blk-cgroup: use correct format characters

Bill Wendling morbo at google.com
Fri Jun 10 00:16:23 CEST 2022


From: Bill Wendling <isanbard at gmail.com>

When compiling with -Wformat, clang emits the following warnings:

mm/backing-dev.c:880:57: error: format string is not a string literal (potentially insecure) [-Werror,-Wformat-security]
        dev = device_create(bdi_class, NULL, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, bdi->dev_name);
                                                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~

Use a string literal for the format string.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/378
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <isanbard at gmail.com>
---
 mm/backing-dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index ff60bd7d74e0..7b7786dceff3 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ int bdi_register_va(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *fmt, va_list args)
 		return 0;
 
 	vsnprintf(bdi->dev_name, sizeof(bdi->dev_name), fmt, args);
-	dev = device_create(bdi_class, NULL, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, bdi->dev_name);
+	dev = device_create(bdi_class, NULL, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, "%s", bdi->dev_name);
 	if (IS_ERR(dev))
 		return PTR_ERR(dev);
 
-- 
2.36.1.255.ge46751e96f-goog



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